Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley described Poarch Creek Indians’ offer to help the state with its budget shortfall as disingenuous and bogus.

The Poarch Band of Creek Indians has invested into an ad campaign urging voters to push their legislators to accept the tribe’s $250m offer to fill the state’s budget deficit. In return, the state would sign a compact that would give the tribe exclusive rights to gambling in the state.

“We have not been offered $250 million by the Poarch Creek Indians. We can’t take money from them because it’s advance money that will be paid on things down the road,” Bentley told AL.com. “I really wish they would be honest with the state of Alabama. What they are saying now is just totally dishonest.”

Bentley also said that although he have the power to deal with the tribe, he and many other Alabamians have a hard time granting exclusive rights to just one business to do anything. Bentley maintains the budget must be solved with a combination of tax increases and reforms, not from gambling dollars.